ENGEL’S COACH SHOP

ENGEL’S COACH SHOP

105 So. Main Street

PO Box 247

Joliet, MT 59041

406-962-3573

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Greetings from Joliet, Montana!

We are a small town, family owned business very similar to the multitude of carriage shops that used to dot our country years ago. Joliet is nestled in the foothills of the Beartooth Mountains and only 90 miles from Yellowstone National Park where our coaches are used at Roosevelt Lodge. We are only 30 minutes southwest from Billings, Montana's largest city, and only 15 minutes off Interstate 90. And since Joliet's 'business district' is only 2 blocks long, we're real easy to find.

Over the years, I've had the opportunity to build, repair, and restore a number of Yellowstone style coaches and have grown to appreciate the craftsmanship of the Abbot, Downing Company. Since Yellowstone Park is in our 'back yard', that style touring coach is extra special to us. I'll try to include some sequential pictures of restoration projects of Yellowstone coaches, buggies, Broughams, Breaks, Band wagons, and what ever else I can squeeze in. (Please understand I am a wheelwright, not a web-master) The coach pictured here is one of 3 seventeen passenger coaches we built for Yellowstone Park during 1980 and 1982. (The gentleman standing on the wheel is Rick Bischoff, whom many of you know, and now operates The Luminary Shoppe here in Joliet.)

This is our 29th year in the horse drawn vehicle and wheelwright trade. Where has the time gone! Twenty nine years ago this internet thing wasn't anything to even ponder. Now even po-dunk shops like us are getting on board. Even though we might try this web page stuff, this is still a ma and pa operation in a one-horse town, so don't be fooled. We still like to know what your latest 'project' is, how big your horses or mules are, what you do for real work, and where your kids live.

Our shop of over 5000 sq. feet allows us to do most things right here, including custom wood bending and machining. We build, and rebuild all sizes of wooden wheels and do custom work on horse drawn vehicles. The highlight here is custom. We don't mass-produce. If you have a vehicle or a set of wheels you would like reproduced, or restored, so they look like the originals, that's what we like to do.

We have produced a video series called The Art of the Wheelwright for those of you interested in understanding the trade better. It’s just like being here in the shop while I work!

We also have a few parts and supplies around that include most of your buggy hardware, shafts, poles, tongues, singletrees, doubletrees, neck yokes, wagon bows of all sizes, etc., etc., etc.. This is all in a little catalog we have available. Just let us know if you want one! It's FREE!

To those of you who've been here before, we're still at the same place on Main Street in Joliet. Those of you who haven't, stop by when you're close by (200 miles is considered close here in Montana). Of course you can always call, mail, or email us anytime.

Even though we live in a one horse town, technology allows us to accept VISA and Master Card. We ship mostly via USPS (the post office) and it's amazing what we get through! If UPS is better for you, we'll do that too. Maybe we'll see you someday.

(This site will be under construction for a while so stay tuned for more pictures!)

Dave and Diane Engel
ENGELS COACH SHOP
105 So. Main
PO Box 247
Joliet, MT 59041
406-962-3573

dave@engelscoachshop.com

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